A home for the weirdos: is the era of niche online satire publishing over?

Despite the overwhelming popularity of "weird comedy" among online millennials, the sites that publish it are finding it harder and harder to survive in the increasingly revenue-focused world of digital publishing.

Caleb Triscari

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For a publication that encouraged readers to “Be Less Stupid”, recently defunct US website The Awl published a lot of stupid pieces. Yet it was the combination of sometimes weird, sometimes culturally acute writing that fostered a cult following in a publishing environment unfriendly to non-marketable styles of writing.

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